Raphiglossa S.S. Saunders, 1850

Fateryga, A. V., 2021, A new species of the genus Raphiglossa S. S. Saunders, 1850 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae sensu lato) from Turkmenistan, Far Eastern Entomologist 437, pp. 24-30 : 25-26

Genus Raphiglossa S.S. Saunders, 1850

Raphiglossa Saunders, 1850: 71–74 ; Meade-Waldo, 1913: 45; Bequaert, 1918: 29–30, 270–

271; Giordani Soika, 1970: 28–32; 1974: 111–132; van der Vecht & Fischer, 1972: 1–2;

Kurzenko, 1978: 370; 1982: 94; Gusenleitner, 1988: 714–715; 2000: 60; 2013: 75;

Carpenter et al., 2010: 219–222; Fateryga et al., 2019: 31; 2021: 53.

Rhaphidoglossa de Dalla Torre, 1894: 7 , unjustified emendation of Raphiglossa S.S. Saunders,

1850.

Type species: Raphiglossa eumenoides S.S. Saunders, 1850 , by subsequent designation of Ashmead, 1902: 206.

DIAGNOSIS. Representatives of the genus can be distinguished from the closely related genus Psiliglossa S.S. Saunders, 1872 by having T1 petiolate, much longer than wide (versus sessile, shorter than wide), maxillar palpi with three segments (versus six), and mid tibia with one spur (versus two). They can be distinguished from another closely related genus Elisella

Giordani Soika, 1974 by having relatively short mesosoma with scutellum shorter than wide

(versus nearly as long as wide) and campaniform T1, with maximal width at apex (versus fusiform, with maximal width at a distance from apex).

SPECIES INCLUDED. Raphiglossa bytinskii Giordani Soika, 1974 ( Israel) , R. eumenoides

S.S. Saunders, 1850 ( Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran),

R. flavoornata Cameron, 1905 ( Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Zambia,

Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Tanzania), R. formosa Kostylev, 1940 ( Azerbaijan,

Syria, Iran, Tajikistan), R. irana Giordani Soika, 1970 ( Iran) , R. lemuriae Giordani Soika,

1941 ( Madagascar), R. natalensis Smith, 1857 ( Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, South Africa), R. rasnitsyni Fateryga , sp. n. ( Turkmenistan), R. septentrionalis

Giordani Soika, 1989 ( Togo), R. spinosa (Fabricius, 1804) ( Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya,

Israel), R. tibestica Giordani Soika, 1974 ( Gambia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Chad,

Sudan, Ethiopia).